Recycling of polyamide 12 based powders in the laser sintering process

Rapid Prototyping Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 192-203

  Dotchev, Krassimir ^a   Yusoff, Wan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Ageing (materials); Lasers; Rapid prototypes; Sintering

Indexed keywords

AGEING (MATERIALS); CONSISTENT QUALITY; DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; FABRICATED PARTS; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; LASER SINTERING; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MELT FLOW RATE; PART QUALITY; POLY-AMIDE 12; POWDER PROPERTIES; PROCESSING CONDITION; RAPID PROTOTYPES; RECYCLED GRADES; REFRESH RATE; SENSITIVE INDICATOR; SINTERED MATERIALS; SINTERED POWDERS;

DETERIORATION; LASER HEATING; LASERS; RECYCLING; SINTERING;

POWDERS;

EID: 68249106102     PISSN: 13552546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13552540910960299     Document Type: Article

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